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# curable

«curable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to be cured or made completely better** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (curable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of an illness or injury) Able to be cured or made completely better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#m1)

2) (of a problem) Able to be fixed or put right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in health and science lessons and in family news about illness: doctors may say an illness is curable, which brings hope. It tells the reader there is a way to get better. Opposite: «incurable». Phrases: «easily curable», «curable with medicine», «if caught early, it is curable».

### examples

- Most ear infections are easily curable with medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x1)
- The doctor said Grandpa's illness is curable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x2)
- Many diseases that were once deadly are now curable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x3)
- Head lice are annoying but curable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x4)
- Shyness is curable — with a bit of practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x5)
- If it is found early, the illness is often curable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/#x6)

### note

Made from «cure» + «-able»: the e is dropped. Opposite «incurable». «Curable» (can be cured) is different from «treatable» (can be helped or controlled, even if not fully cured). Do not confuse with «durable» (lasting a long time).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «curable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/curable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.